The year was 1983. Fannie Haughton—a name unfamiliar to most—was living in Oakland, California, under a poisonous Reagan regime, in the middle of a drug war.
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When gospel sermons came on the phonograph – The Conversation
The first truly African-American musical form, the “Spirituals,” took shape in the 17th and 18th centuries within the generations of slaves born into the tough American experience. Music was a daily part of their survival and sustenance.
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The Woman with the Violin
Ginger Smock and the Los Angeles Jazz Scene
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A Unique African-American Culture, Hundreds of Years Old, That Could Go Extinct – Slate
Growing up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in the 1970s, Pete Marovich often overheard locals speaking “a rapid-fire language that sounded similar to English.”
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A New Museum Will Celebrate The Special Place Blacks Hold In American Music History – A Plus
“This is the museum that will tell the story of the American soundtrack.”
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Edna Lewis and the Black Roots of American Cooking – The New York Times
The chef and author made the case for black Southern cooking as the foundation of our national cuisine. Does she get the credit she deserves?
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Why the Detroit Historical Museum’s new 1967 exhibit needs to be seen – Detroit Metro Times
When it comes to looking back on what went down in Detroit in late July of 1967, the fable of the blind men and the elephant was never more apt.
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James Baldwin FBI Files: How the Author’s Fearlessness Toward the FBI and Others Led to a Decade Long Witch-hunt – Atlanta Black Star
One of the many paradoxes of American society is that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has become both destroyer and archivists of 20th-century American radicalism.
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Compromise of 1877: Set Stage for Jim Crow Era – ThoughtCo.
Jim Crow Segregation Ruled South for Nearly a Century
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An ICON MANN Salute To Sidney Poitier – Ebony
Long considered one of the greatest actors to grace the silver screen; American born-Bahamian raised Sidney Poitier’s first foray to acting was at the age of 16 where upon arriving in New York City, working as dishwasher to make ends meet, he responded to a casting call for American Negro Theater in Harlem.
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